Layoffs and attrition have reduced JPL’s overall staffing by about one-third in the last two years, sources at the ...

Nearly 300 space advocates from across the United States converged on Capitol Hill on Oct. 6 for a “Save NASA Science” Day of ...

Retired Planetarium Director Dave Leake talks with Mitchell Rife about the Carruthers observatory and how it will capture ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research touch nearly every aspect of ...

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NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific discoveries.

One of the missions, currently on its way to an asteroid, has been saved, but the fate of several others depend on the ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

On a pale morning in January 2005, a metallic object the size of a dishwasher descended through the thick haze of Saturn’s ...